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Holmes, Barbara; Waterbury, Theresa; Baltrinic, Eric; Davis, Arielle – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
This paper offers some insights into the anxieties graduate students bring into the classroom about academic or technical writing. In this qualitative study, a focus group of graduate students was utilized to describe the specific negative feelings, attitudes and experiences held about writing. Findings suggest that students were able to identify…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Attitudes, Anxiety, Academic Discourse
Kraemer, Don J. – Journal of Basic Writing, 2017
This article uses Zak Lancaster's 2016 discovery that academics do not actually write the way "They Say/I Say" says they do to reflect on relations between, on the one hand, facts about academic writing and, on the other, the pedagogical values that underlie and guide those facts--or, put another way, to reflect on how values we may…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Instruction, Academic Discourse, Remedial Instruction
Figueroa, Javiera; Meneses, Alejandra; Chandia, Eugenio – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Writing is a task that entails high cognitive and linguistic efforts, especially when producing academic texts. Academic language might be one of the factors influencing the quality of written texts, given that prior research has shown its impact on reading comprehension. The purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of Spanish Core…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Spanish, Language Skills
Eldaba, Abir Aly; Isbell, Janet Kesterson – Journal of International Students, 2018
In a critical study, researchers explored academic writing experiences of three international female graduate students at a southern U.S. university in order to understand their perspectives of themselves as writers across cultures, their experiences with academic writing, and their coping strategies for academic writing assignments. Findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Academic Discourse, Coping, Writing (Composition)
Rogerson, Ann M. – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2017
Detecting contract cheating in written submissions can be difficult beyond direct plagiarism detectable via technology. Successfully identifying potential cases of contract cheating in written work such as essays and reports is largely dependent on the experience of assessors and knowledge of student. It is further dependent on their familiarity…
Descriptors: Cheating, Essays, Graduate Students, Integrity
Esambe, Emmanuel; Mosito, Cina; Pather, Subethra – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
The varying literacy standards that undergraduate students represent are a reflection of their interim grasp of academic literacy (Paxton 2007). The aim of this study is to analyse a small group of undergraduate first-year students' depiction of their interim grasp of academic writing and to reflect on how lecturers use formative feedback to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Essays, Academic Discourse, Writing Assignments
Husin, M. Said; Nurbayani, Etty – Dinamika Ilmu, 2017
This study is meant to examine the thesis quality of students of English Department at IAIN Samarinda. Through the descriptive-quantitative research, the thesis quality of students of English Department at IAIN Samarinda is reviewed from the aspects of language, structure, concepts understanding, theoretical framework, methodology, content,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Assignments
Demirel, Elif Tokdemir – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study aims to explore Turkish EFL students' major writing difficulties by analyzing the frequent writing errors in academic essays. Accordingly, the study examined errors in a corpus of 150 academic essays written by Turkish EFL students studying at the Department of English Language and Literature at a public university in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Correction, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)
Coleman, Lynn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This paper argues that curriculum decision-making in the South African University of Technology (UoT) environment is affected not only by industry and disciplinary demands, but also by socio-structural features and ideologies particular to this educational sector. It supports the view that recontextualisation processes are subject to multiple…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
McAlear, Rob; Pedretti, Mark – Composition Studies, 2016
Process-based composition pedagogy has ignored the question of "doneness": the criteria used to decide when a piece of writing is complete. This article uses survey results from first- and second-year composition courses to challenge common beliefs about how students determine when writing assignments are sufficiently completed. We find…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction
MacLennan, Helen – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Student plagiarism in higher education is widespread and presents a growing concern for faculty and administrators who are intent on upholding academic integrity. However, a myopic view of plagiarism as a purely ethical issue is misguided. It is not always simply a deliberate attempt to deceive. Through the involvement of students in an…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Plagiarism, Action Research, Case Studies
Campbell, Jennifer – Composition Forum, 2016
In addition to teaching research and writing skills, First-Year Composition classes are well situated to help students develop strategies for managing stress and increasing well-being. I describe an assignment sequence in which students interview others from three generations about topics related to happiness and wellbeing, analyze shared…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Interviews, Writing (Composition)
Baer, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Writing is a critical proficiency for academic and career success, but a significant number of students enter higher education underprepared for the academic writing expectations awaiting them. Due to immense sociocultural barriers, linguistically-diverse college (LDC) students, in particular, may find college writing challenging. Complicated…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing (Composition), Academic Discourse, College Readiness
Court, Krista; Johnson, Helen – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Strong arguments have been forwarded for embedding academic writing development into the UK higher education curriculum and for subject tutors to facilitate this development (Hyland, 2000; Lea & Street, 2006; Monroe, 2003; Wingate, 2006). This small-scale case study explores subject tutors' practices and beliefs with regard to the provision of…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, College Students, Foreign Countries
Belk, John – Composition Forum, 2018
This profile describes how the Writing Program at Southern Utah University enacts a rhetorical humanist framework in its administrative and curricular structures. At the administrative level, rhetorical humanism offers a collaborative governance model that gives all faculty a voice in programmatic decisions, while managing the cacophony created by…
Descriptors: Humanism, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making